The average teenager requires eight to ten hours of high-quality sleep every night to properly function in daily activities such as school or extracurriculars. Adequate sleep allows a teenager’s developing...

Rows of colorful vegetables adorn the folding tables set up across the Wyaconda Road parking lot. Families roam through the distribution site, eagerly eyeing the tables and awaiting their turn to shop....

Fabiola Katz expected to celebrate her birthday like any other year, but what she did not expect was it to transform into one of the most special moments of her career. Unbeknownst to Katz, her AP Spanish...

The gym echoes with bouncing basketballs, yelling students and squeaking sneakers as students participate in their P.E. class. A whistle blows and Physical Education teacher Neal Poll calls his students...

It’s a sunny afternoon in April, and the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington D.C. is bustling with sounds of people. Between the cracks of crowds and city life, slivers of colorful art pieces hang...

Visitors walk into Sarah’s Handmade Ice Cream and are immediately met with the sweet smell of freshly made ice cream and the smiling faces of high school-age employees. There’s a slight chill in the...

The bell rings and students flood the halls, walking confidently to their next class without pausing to glance at their schedules. It’s the third quarter of the year and daily routines are etched into...

Students flood in through a classroom’s open doors, greeted in the doorway by Michael Seymour. Each one pauses as they pass, discussing the big game they played last night, the techniques of shadow they...

A young girl picks a granola bar off the supermarket shelf and places it in the shopping cart. Her mother reads the nutrition label and comments, “I really don't think you need this.”  While this...

Responses have been edited for length and clarity.  Two weeks ago, the MCPS Board of Education appointed Whitman Principal Dr. Robert Dodd as a director in the Office of School Support and Well-Being,...